Center-piece



(NoMocleL) P. BEDEAU.

Center Piece.

No. 233,595. Patented Oct. 26,1880.

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UNITED STATES PAUL BEDEAU, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CENTER-PIECE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,595, dated October26, 1880.

Application filed March 3, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL BEDEAU, of the city of St. Louis, State ofMissouri, have invented a new Improvement in Ornamental Center-Piecesfor Oeilin gs of Rooms, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide center-pieces with fasteningattachments, so that they can be put in place by an unskilled person,and may be removed without sustaining the slightest damage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an ornamentalcenter-piece, B, through the perforated center of which passes thegaspipe or a rod of any material. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of thefastening device through center line, 0 P, of Fig. 3, the latter being ahorizontal section through line M N of Fig. 2.

-Fig. 4 is an elevation of fastening device.

Similar letters indicate in the different tigures similar parts.

To the perforated center of an ornamental center-piece I fasten a deviceconstructed in such a manner that by means of screws or wedges, or both,it can be firmly clamped to a gas-pipe or any rod fixed in the ceilingreceiving the ornament, so that any person of ordinary intelligenceisfthereby enabled to securely fix it to its place.

Among a number of devices which may be employed for this purpose I givethe preference to the one represented in the aforesaid drawings, inwhich G represents the gas-pipe or rod fastened to the ceiling. G is asocket, one extremity of which is securely fastened to center-piece B,while the other extremity is provided on its inner circumference with ascrew-thread for the reception of the hollow screw or nut D. The insidesurface of the latter, Fig. 2, in advancing presses the wedges E throughtheir inclined planes against the gas-pipe or rod, and thus clamps theornament securely in its place. The wedges E are provided with strips,connecting them to the socket C in such a manner that by turning D theycan only move from or toward the gas-pipe or red projectin g from theceiling.

I claim as my invention 1. An ornamental center-piece of plaster,cartonierre, or other material, combined with a central clamping orfastening device consisting of a wedge or wedges and a clamping-nutpermanently connected to it, substantially as described, and for thepurpose specified.

2. In combination with a center-piece and a rod or pipe, the clampingdevice consisting in the combination of socket O, screw or nut D, andwedges E, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

PAUL BEDEAU.

Witnesses:

J. G. GoEsEL, JAS. J. IVIOGARRY.

